Results List
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Grappling with Big Picture Change
Source: The Forum for Youth Investment
The efforts of small-scale funders like family and community foundations in the United States to make systemwide change to improve the lives of children and youth are reviewed in this report by the Forum for Youth Investment. Youth Investment, a grantee of The Atlantic Philanthropies.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Executive Summary of Findings from the Media Initiative for Children
Source: Early Years
Young children who participated in a media programme to increase their awareness of diversity showed clear changes in their socio-emotional development, cultural awareness and inclusive behaviour, according to an evaluation by the Centre for Effective Education at Queen’s University Belfast. The randomised controlled trial examined…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Transforming the Lives of At-Risk Youth
The Brotherhood/Sisterhood of Bermuda is more than an organisation – it is a way of life. The programme is an emerging, grassroots initiative that provides youth with the opportunity to explore their ideas, identity and future among peers, with the support and guidance from elders.…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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National Youth Summit Opening
On February 26, 2011, the Department of Education hosted a national youth summit to empower students and listen to what they had to say about education. This video was a recap of the youth listening tour that visited 9 cities across the country preceding the…
Resource type: Video
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Making the Link: Reducing Poverty at the State and Local Level
Source: Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
Foundations can play a key role in state and local policy efforts to reduce poverty and some that are already collaborating with United States policymakers are featured in this report by Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families. Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families is an Atlantic…
Resource type: Research Report
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Mayo Children’s Initiative
An Animation created for Mayo Children’s Initiative in conjunction with St. Brendan’s Community College Belmulet and The Galway Film centre with Tutor Aideen Barry. More on the Mayo Children’s Initiative >>
Resource type: Video
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Elev8 Youth Speak for Themselves on Capitol Hill
Source: Public Interest Projects
On April 22, 2012, students from 20 Elev8 middle schools across the country filed into legislative office buildings surrounding the nation’s capitol, nervous but prepared to speak out on issues they had selected themselves, including school safety and funding for after school programs. The visit…
Resource type: Video
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Summary of Lessons for the Field from Atlantic Philanthropies’ “Out-of-School Time” Initiative
Source: Harvard Family Research Project
A five-year investment to keep disadvantaged youth engaged in learning during out-of-school time (OST) hours by the Atlantic Philanthropies has yielded important lessons for funders and built the OST field through its focus on organisational capacity, evaluation, advocacy and professional development, according to this 2010…
Resource type: Research Report
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Prevention and Early Intervention Programme in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Source: Mathematica Policy Research
Children and youth organisations on the island of Ireland are building a strong body of prevention and early intervention practices, according to an evaluation of Atlantic’s investments by Mathematica Policy Research. Meanwhile, research organisations are acquiring new expertise in evaluating children’s prevention and early intervention…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Inside Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Initiative
Source: PBS NewsHour
Solutions to complex issues like the impact of race require not just a desire to change but the actual tools to make change. In 2014, the Obama administration began My Brother’s Keeper, a public and private collaboration to create opportunities for young men of color to…
Resource type: Video